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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
VLDB
1998
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Proximity Search in Databases
An information retrieval IR engine can rank documents based on textual proximityof keywords within each document. In this paper we apply this notion to search across an entire dat...
Roy Goldman, Narayanan Shivakumar, Suresh Venkatas...
DASFAA
2007
IEEE
151views Database» more  DASFAA 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
On Label Stream Partition for Efficient Holistic Twig Join
Label stream partition is a useful technique to reduce the input I/O cost of holistic twig join by pruning useless streams beforehand. The Prefix Path Stream (PPS) partition scheme...
Bo Chen, Tok Wang Ling, M. Tamer Özsu, Zhenzh...
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Modeling multi-step relevance propagation for expert finding
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra